If I had to guess, I would think that March 2020 was the first month where the majority of the people started to realize that this “Coronavirus” thing wasn't going to go away quietly in the night like so many “viruses” before it. I know for myself, March was a huge wake-up call. I remember the exact moment. It came on March 17th. I was planning on taking my son to see the new Sonic The Hedgehog movie that he had been begging me to take him to for weeks. We were just getting ready to go out the door when my mother called to see what we were doing. I told her that we were going to the movies and she said “guess again.” I checked the news and this is what I saw:
Gov. Kim Reynolds prohibits gatherings of more than 10 people, limits restaurants, closes theaters, casinos, bars
“Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday ordered the closure of many businesses and recreational facilities in Iowa for two weeks, a substantial pause on both Iowa's economy and cultural life as state officials seek to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.”
I had promised my son for weeks that we would go to see this movie and now that we finally had the time during his Spring break, those plans were completely ruined. As I saw the tears flow down his face as the sadness overwhelmed him, I grew increasingly frustrated and angry that they were using a “virus” to take away this experience from us. Losing the opportunity to see a movie with my son at the theater seems so simple and small in the grand scheme of things now, but back then this moment was a pivotal wake-up call that all was not right in this world. It is clear from the ramping up of the output of my posts at that time that I felt the urgent need to get the word out there that this wasn't the same scenario as before. This was something new. They were going to take the “virus” lie further than ever before and people needed to be warned about this fraud no matter the cost. Presented below are my initial posts from March 1st through the 10th.
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